Testing benefits

Your report (Jun 29) says Enda Kenny has ‘refused to rule out means testing child benefit and cutting free electricity, phones, and travel for pensioners’.

Contrast this with his stout defence of paying massive pensions to ‘retired’ politicians, by claiming that their ‘property rights’ are preventing government cutting these back to more acceptable levels.

See also his refusal to tackle the scandal of ‘expenses’ and allowances that top up TDs’ and senators’ already very generous pay.

It is no accident that in the period that this Government has been in power, the gap between both ends of the socio-economic ladder has widened considerably.

Jim O’Sullivan

Rathedmond

Sligo